Our house was built back in 1973 and has pocket doors in the kitchen. One is "off" its track and I cannot get it back on. Any ideas? Don't want to remove the drywall to get at it. Thanks John

John, I had the same problem a couple years ago with our 1970 home. You should be able to see, but possibly not be able to get to the adjusters on top. This means you will need to carefully pull the molding off the pocket side and work the door out of the cavity. Once the molding is off, (might have to do both sides of the molding for clearance)you will have room to tilt the door and remove it. If the track is damaged, you then need to replace it by then pulling off some of the 'rock, being the only way to access it. Assuming that the track is fine and only a wheel is damaged, you can then replace the entire mechanism or if it's an odd ball as some of ours are, do some 'constructive thinking' and just replace the wheels.

Our house was built back in 1973 and has pocket doors in the kitchen. One is "off" its track and I cannot get it back on. Any ideas? Don't want to remove the drywall to get at it. Thanks John

John, I had the same problem a couple years ago with our 1970 home. You should be able to see, but possibly not be able to get to the adjusters on top. This means you will need to carefully pull the molding off the pocket side and work the door out of the cavity. Once the molding is off, (might have to do both sides of the molding for clearance)you will have room to tilt the door and remove it. If the track is damaged, you then need to replace it by then pulling off some of the 'rock, being the only way to access it. Assuming that the track is fine and only a wheel is damaged, you can then replace the entire mechanism or if it's an odd ball as some of ours are, do some 'constructive thinking' and just replace the wheels.

Dave it worked! All they needed (3 doors) was some Vaseline on the wheels,and easy peassy! Thanks bud, Happy 2014! John on the frozen North shore of Lake Erie

Our house was built back in 1973 and has pocket doors in the kitchen. One is "off" its track and I cannot get it back on. Any ideas? Don't want to remove the drywall to get at it. Thanks John

John, I had the same problem a couple years ago with our 1970 home. You should be able to see, but possibly not be able to get to the adjusters on top. This means you will need to carefully pull the molding off the pocket side and work the door out of the cavity. Once the molding is off, (might have to do both sides of the molding for clearance)you will have room to tilt the door and remove it. If the track is damaged, you then need to replace it by then pulling off some of the 'rock, being the only way to access it. Assuming that the track is fine and only a wheel is damaged, you can then replace the entire mechanism or if it's an odd ball as some of ours are, do some 'constructive thinking' and just replace the wheels.

Dave it worked! All they needed (3 doors) was some Vaseline on the wheels,and easy peassy! Thanks bud, Happy 2014! John on the frozen North shore of Lake Erie